Do we have anyone like Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders in Japan? Or the environment to potentially produce athletes like them? The answer would be simply “no,” or “most unlikely,” wouldn’t it? In recent years, the value of playing multiple sports has been a ...

A new era has come to the X League. For the first time in five years, the X League will have a new champion. And for the first time in league history, the X League title will be contested by the two teams whose ...

Kevin Craft threw three touchdown passes and scored two more on the ground, leading the IBM BigBlue to a 38-10 victory over the Lixil Deers on the final day of the X League regular season on Sunday at Yokohama Stadium. Both the BigBlue and ...

The Deers ended last season by losing to the Obic Seagulls 21-12 in the semifinals of the X League playoffs at Yokohama Stadium. It was also their last game as the Kajima Corporation-owned football team. A year later at the same site, the Deers, ...

Daisuke Aoki kicked a 19-yard field goal with 1:02 remaining as the Lixil Deers came from a two-touchdown deficit to beat the All Mitsubishi Lions 31-28 on Monday night in the X League’s season opener. The Deers, formerly owned by Kajima Corp. but now ...

The Lixil Deers, formerly known as the company-owned Kajima Deers, are taking their first steps forward as a new club team. The Deers, one of the X League power houses, on Saturday held their first tryout to look for new talent outside of Kajima ...

In 2014, the Deers will play in new colors — orange and white. Formerly known as the Kajima Deers, the X League football club announced Thursday that it is to become the Lixil Deers. Earlier last year, the team was told by its parent ...